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   :gnu:+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 (bonifartius@qoto.org)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Aug-2025 19:14:22 JST :gnu:+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄

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   • josemanuel

   @josemanuel comments raging about surveillance state failing to see that surveillance isn't a consequence of technology existing. it's about the same with guns not shooting people.

   if states wouldn't have transferred money that isn't theirs to a handful of giant conglomerates there still would be new technology developed. voice recognition isn't bad because it's voice recognition. cars calling an ambulance on their own isn't bad, the bad thing is i can't get new ones without this now and that the movement data directly goes to some spook agency to be stored forever.

   so i think what deserves some ludditeism is the way these things are designed. there is no reason voice recognition has to go to a server across the globe for example. i played with sphinx on a 800 MHz dual core in like 2015 and it already worked pretty well. same goes for almost everything.

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     josemanuel@qoto.org's status on Tuesday, 05-Aug-2025 19:14:23 JST josemanuel

     I love how the author apologises in advance for her cartoon (“It's not a call to Luddism, I promise”), but every comment is basically: “Yes! Luddism is the answer!”

     (I'm a computer programmer and I agree: Luddism is the answer. Also, we need to cut out the middlemen. They're parasites.)